Famous Quotes for Today

Today's Famous Quotes:

Emmet Fox


Life is consciousness.

James Thurber


The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

Unknown


Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things.

Edgar Watson Howe


Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

Communist Manifesto


All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

Robert Henri


Why do we love the sea It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.

Thomas Fuller


Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Walter Landor


My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Beah Richards


Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for So you can make a bigger salary than other people

Andrew Carnegie


The man who dies rich dies disgraced.

Alfred Tennyson


Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

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Sheriff candidates -- dueling quotes - Weblogs.sun-sentinel.com

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:19:00 GMT
This week, both candidates for Broward County sheriff visited the Sun Sentinel to talk about their campaigns. "It's just using a calculator and putting a couple extra zeroes in ...

Quotations of the day - International Herald Tribune

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:08:00 GMT
"This is the president's own party. I don't think a president has been repudiated so strongly by the congressional wing of his own party in a long time." — Democratic Rep. Barney ...

Stock & fund quotes - ninemsn

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:20:00 GMT
NEW YORK, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Oil settled more than $1 lower on Friday, with trading volatile due to uncertainty about a bailout package for the U.S. financial sector after talks ...

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Great Famous Quotations

Famous Quotations:

G. Norman Collie


Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else--and usually it's reading his own handwriting.

Peter Handke


I couldn't say who I am, I haven't the remotest notion of myself I am someone without antecedents, without a history, without a country, and on that I insist

George Bernard Shaw


While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?

Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno


The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

Henry Ward Beecher


Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things.

Saint John Chrysostom, Letter to Olympia


No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.

Isaac Bashevis Singer


If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

Joseph Addison


The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

Benjamin Franklin


He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas.

Eric Hoffer


We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Miguel de Cervantes


Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.

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The Enduring Capitalist Conspiracy For World Govt - Scoop

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:29:00 GMT
The 47 minute film titled “The Capitalist Conspiracy: An Inside View of International Banking”, by the author of the famous book on the founding of the Federal Reserve System ...

Ronald Reagan's age quip and other significant quotes from the ... - MLive.com

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:23:00 GMT
Sometimes, the pivotal point in a presidential debate has been just one thing a candidate said. Other times, it's just something you don't forget. Here are some famous lines, plus ...

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Canadian dollar opens at 96.53 cents US, down 0.15 of a cent - Canada East

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:49:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar opened at 96.53 cents US this morning, down 0.15 of a cent from Thursday's close. The U.S. dollar stood at C$1.0359 cents, up 0.16 of a cent. Pound ...

'Ugly Betty' Bites: Willy, Lohan, and Regis - Popwatch

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:58:00 GMT
One of the best parts of Ugly Betty is the campy show’s hilarious, over-the-top quips from its cast of crazy characters. Remember how you almost choked on your extra-skinny latte ...

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Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis


For a while I thought history was something bitter old men wrote. But Jack loved history so ... for Jack history was full of heroes.

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck


The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Katharine Hepburn


Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.

George Bernard Shaw


The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

George Eliot, Romola, 1863


Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.

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(Adds more quotes) - Reuters

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:28:00 GMT
BRUSSELS, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Dutch-Belgian bank Fortis' (FOR.BR: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) said on Friday it had no liquidity issue but was looking to sell more ...

Quotations for Russian Eurobonds - Interfax Information Agency

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:19:00 GMT
25.09.2008 Dealer Date of issue 31.03.10 24.07.18 24.06.28 31.03.30 Roseximbank 103.250 136.500 161.500 103.125 103.500 138.000 163.000 103.750 Bank Zenit 103.250 136.500 161.750 ...

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Daily Quotes

Today's Quotes:

Horace, Epistles


Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

Anthony Hopkins


I love life because what more is there.

Christopher Marlowe


Things that are not at all, are never lost.

Anatole France


To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan but also believe.

Thomas H. Huxley


Only a scientific people can survive in a scientific future.

Rudyard Kipling


Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

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Chicago In the News - University of Chicago Chronicle

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:10:00 GMT
The Chronicle’s biweekly column Chicago In the News offers a digest of commentary and quotations by a few of the University faculty members, students and alumni who have been ...

India FIMMDA-REUTERS-MIOCS for 3 years 4.55 pct - Reuters India

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:04:00 GMT
The above dollar rupee swap rates are a simple average of the bid and offer rates quoted by 11 market participants.The floating benchmark used here is the six month USD libor. For ...

Crude oil prices down slightly - United Press International

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:49:00 GMT
Quotes delayed at least 20 mins. NEW YORK, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- Crude oil prices slid Friday to $105.37 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange as a bailout plan in Washington ...

Negative campaign ads reflect poorly on both sides - Daily Anaeum

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:00:00 GMT
Here’s a surprise: I can’t stand Sen. Barack Obama’s recent television advertisements. Granted, I have found myself generally appalled by every campaign ad I’ve seen this ...

Crude oil prices down slightly - United Press International

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:49:00 GMT
Quotes delayed at least 20 mins. NEW YORK, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- Crude oil prices slid Friday to $105.37 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange as a bailout plan in Washington ...

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